What caused the conflict between science and religion?

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reggieM said:
We can quote prominent scientists who disagree.

But aside from that, where’s your evidence to support that view?
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Religion attempts to explain why. Science tries to explain how.

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Latias said:
Do you think it has something to do with the Catholic Church being highly invested in Aristotelian philosophy and Thomism that it could not accommodate the mechanicist science of Newtonian mechanics and later Darwinian evolution. Such scientific theories seem to dispense of classical notions of substance and teleology.
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Indeed. Which is why I am very weary of nearly all modern, non-practical science. Any “science” which uses post-Kanitian ‘anti-metaphysics’ as it’s philosophical basis is suspect.

When in doubt, trust the Truth.
 
thephilosopher6 said:
There is no conflict, but figures like Richard Dawkins attempt to further that illusion. It’s the usual ploy of a naturalist.
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I would add that Ken Ham and other Young Earth creationists also propagate that illusion from the religious side.

If God made the universe and God wrote scripture then the correct interpretations of both must agree, so there is no real conflict. The problems come when human interpretations of the World and the Word differ. The conflict used to be about Heliocentrism: Copernicus and Galileo. Currently the conflict seems to be about the age of the universe and evolution.

Judging by what happened last time, it will be eventually resolved as an old universe with God using evolution as part of His method of creation: “Let the waters bring forth…”

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All these heliocentric noobs in here.

Geocentrism for lyfe!

(Church condemnation is still in force!)
 
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